The onland excavation
The onland excavation at agios petros
The island settlement of Agios Petros in the northern Sporades, was first excavated by Professor D. Theocharis in the early 1970s and ten years later by N. Efstratiou (final publication Efstratiou, N-BAR International Series S241 – A Neolithic site in the Northern Sporades: Aegean Relationships during the Neolithic of the 5th Millennium, BAR)
Agios Petros is an all-year-round fully-fledged Neolithic settlement founded in the second half of the 7th millennium cal BC (EN/early MN) on the slope of a present-day tiny island in the bay of Kyra Panagia, and lasting well into the LN of the 5th millennium cal BC.
Plans of Neolithic houses and structures on Agios Petros (1981)
The on-land excavation revealed a rich material record consisting of typical Thessalian monochrome ceramics together with idiosyncratic red-on-white painted pottery, stone built architectural remains (rectangular and apsidal plans), an interesting figurine repertory with trans-regional cultural stylistic influences from the Greek mainland (Thessaly, the Balkans and Anatolia) and subsistence finds consisting of domesticated fauna (sheep, goat, pigs, cows), hunted animals (deer), sea shells and fishing remains. Also two burials of an infant and a child placed in contracted position.
